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Summer school

2006

This two-week Summer School was the first of its type in Europe to
focus on anti-discrimination legal issues on the ground of disability.
It focused on the potential of the
EU
Framework Directive on Employment Discrimination in the context
of disability. The Framework Directive is the single most important
legal instrument at the European level combating discrimination on
the ground of disability.

2011

This Programme introduced participants to the nature of the convention, to treaty
interpretation in general, to the general concept of equality in the
convention (and some of the relevant innovations in the CRPD). It drew out the differences between obligations of immediate effect
(non-discrimination) and obligations of conduct (to ’progressively
achieve’) social and economic rights and how to identify which
provisions in the convention create which kinds of obligations. It focused on certain core rights such as the right to legal capacity,
the right to independent living, and the right to inclusive education.
It will also focus on important provisions in the convention protecting
people with disabilities against violence, exploitation and abuse. It looked at the practical institutional changes needed to give effect
to the convention at national level (the obligation to create a ’focal
point’, etc). And it explored the implications of the CRPD for
development aid programmes throughout the world.

2012

The 4th International Disability Summer School aimed to equip participants with the insights and
skills necessary to translate the generalities of the UN Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities into tangible reform for persons with
disabilities.
The Faculty included senior academics, practitioners and policy makers from
around the world most of whom have been directly and actively engaged in
drafting and implementing the Convention.

2013

The 5th International Disability Summer School welcomed Minister Kathleen Lynch to officially launch the summer school. The theme this year was " the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - VOICE & CHOICE". The Summer School looked at linking legally capacity (decision making) and independent living.